Dionysus after Nietzsche : The Birth of Tragedy in twentieth-century literature and thought /

• Main Author: Lecznar, Adam (συγγραφέας)
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2020.
• Series: Classics after antiquity
• Subjects: Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, > 1844-1900 > Ερμηνεία και κριτική; Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, > 1844-1900 > Επιδράσεις; Harrison, Jane Ellen, > 1850-1928.; Lawrence, D. H. > (David Herbert), > 1885-1930; Heidegger, Martin, > 1889-1976; Schechner, Richard, > 1934-; Soyinka, Wole.; Πολιτισμός, Μοντέρνος > Ελληνικές επιδράσεις.; Διόνυσος (Θεός)

"Dionysus after Nietzsche examines the way that The Birth of Tragedy (1872) by Friedrich Nietzsche irrevocably influenced the literature and thought of the twentieth century. Adam Lecznar argues that Nietzsche's Dionysus became a symbol of the irrational forces of culture that cannot be co...

Table of Contents:

• Dionysus after Nietzsche
• Corybants, satyrs and bulls : Jane Harrison
• A great kick at misery : D. H. Lawrence
• In search of an absent god : Martin Heidegger
• What Oedipus knew : Richard Schechner
• Dionysus in Yorubaland : Wole Soyinka
• Dionysus today.